PHILADELPHIA. 
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terian church* in High-street. Thee latter 
building is ornamented with a handsome por^ 
tico in front supported by six pillars in the 
Corinthian order ; but it is seen to great disad-? 
vantage on account of the market house, which 
occupies the centre of the street before it. The 
buildings next to these, that are most deserving 
of notice, are the State House, the President’s 
House, the Hospital, the Bettering House, and 
the Gaol. 
The State House is situated in Chesnut- 
street; and, considering that no more than 
fifty-three years elapsed from the time the 
first cabin was built on the spot marked out 
for the city, until it was erected, the archi¬ 
tecture calls forth both our surprise and ad¬ 
miration. The State House is appropriated 
to the use of the legislative bodies of the state. 
Attached to this edifice are the congress and 
the city-halls. In the former, the congress 
of the United States meet to transact bu¬ 
siness. The room allotted to the represen¬ 
tatives of the lower house is about sixty feet 
in length, and fitted up in the plainest manner. 
At one end of it is a gallery, open to every 
person that chuses to enter it; the stair-case 
leading to which runs directly from the pub~ 
lie street. The senate chamber is in the 
story above this, and it is furnished and fitted 
UP in a much superior style to that of the 
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